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Le 17/07/2024 à 14:34, Paul.B.Andersen a écrit :
> Den 17.07.2024 09:14, skrev Thomas Heger:
>> Am Dienstag000016, 16.07.2024 um 21:43 schrieb Paul.B.Andersen:
>>>
>>> There is but one Special Theory of Relativity.
>>
>> No, since actually Einstein's 'On the electrodynamics of moving 
>> bodies' is usually called SRT.
> 
> Of course. This IS the Special Theory of Relativity.
> 
>>
>> But there have been several other attempts to the same problem.
>>
>> One stems from Herman Minkowski and one from Herny Poincaré.
> 
> Minkowski introduced spacetime and the geometric approach
> with metric and proper time.
> It is a reformulation of Einstein's theory, but it is
> still The Special Theory of Relativity.
> 
> Einstein adopted this view, and the very first equation
> in Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity"
> is the metric for the Special Theory of Relativity.
> 
> https://paulba.no/paper/Foundation_of_GR.pdf
> § 4 equation (1)
> 
>>
>> Also the present mainstream consensus about this subject can be called 
>> 'SRT', but is different to what Einstein wrote.
> 
> It is still the same one and only Special Theory of Relativity,
> even if the math has evolved since 1905.
> But there is nothing you can calculate from the metric,
> which you can't calculate from the Lorentz transform in
> "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies".
> 
>>
>> There are also a number of other versions, which were created by 
>> people of minor importance, like e.g. also people participating in 
>> this forum.
>>
>> What exactly 'SRT' is, that is not cast in stone, but is a subject you 
>> could debate.
>> ...
> 
> The Special Theory of Relativity is precisely defined,
> and there is no debate of what it is.
> (Among reasonable knowledgeable people.)
> 

Both Thomas and Richard are insanely demented. But at least Thomas
is not allowed to practice medicine.